A photo from one of the workshopsWorkshop on Singularities

Aug 25, 2008 - Aug 29, 2008

ICMS, 14 India Street, Edinburgh

Organisers

Name Institution
Goryunov, Victor University of Liverpool
Siersma, Dirk Universiteit Utrecht
Vassiliev, Victor Steklov Institute, Moscow


The purpose of the meeting is to bring together experts (both international leaders and promising young researchers) in geometrical and topological branches of Singularity Theory and in some adjacent areas where these branches find applications. The major aims of the workshop are to disseminate new results and ideas, to foster new developments within Singularity Theory and to look for new areas of application and interaction.

The following are likely to be major topics of the meeting:

  • Global singularity theory: topology and geometry
  • Connection between analytic and topological invariants of singularities
  • Non-isolated singularities
  • Singularities in differential geometry
  • Computer packages on singularities

Numbers will be limited to a maximum of 40, there will be a contribution to local costs (including accommodation and subsistence) from awards to ICMS. A Registration Fee of £30 will be payable by all delegates.

Participation is by invitation only: those interested in attending should contact Victor Goryunov (goryunov@liv.ac.uk).

 

Arrangements

Participation
Participation is by invitation only. The workshop will begin on Monday 25 August and finish on Friday 29 May 2008.

UK Visas
If you are travelling from overseas you may require an entry visa. A European visa does not guarantee entry to the UK. Please use this link to the UK Visas site to find out if you need a visa and if so how to apply for one. If you do require a visa, ICMS can provide a signed invitation letter.

Venue
The workshop will take place at the head-quarters of ICMS, 14 India Street, Edinburgh. This house is the birthplace of James Clerk Maxwell and is situated in the historic New Town of Edinburgh, near the city centre.

The ICMS travel pages contain advice on how to travel to Edinburgh. For local information the finding ICMS page shows the location of ICMS and contains useful maps of the city centre.

The seminar room at ICMS has whiteboards, 2 overhead projectors, a data projector and laptop. We ask that you use our laptop for your presentation which you may bring on a memory stick or CD.

Wireless access is available throughout the ICMS building. There are also 7 public PCs which may be used at any time for internet access and to check email.

Accommodation
ICMS will arrange single en-suite rooms in local guest houses for those who require it. Accommodation is typically about 15 to 30 minutes walk from ICMS. Participants are also free to make their own arrangements and may claim back the cost, with receipts, up to a maximum of £60.00 per night bed and breakfast. A list of Edinburgh accommodation of various sorts and prices is available here . Sections 1-3 are particularly relevant.

Meals and Refreshments
A sandwich lunch will be provided on the first day of the workshop, Monday 25 August. For the remainder of the days, participants are free to go out for lunch and explore the many cafes, restaurants, sandwich shops and bars in the surrounding area. On arrival we will provide you with a ‘welcome’ pack which will contain information about eating places nearby.

Morning and afternoon refreshments will be provided throughout the workshop.

There will be an informal wine reception after the close of lectures on Monday 25 August.

The workshop dinner will take place on the evening of Thursday 28 August.

Registration
Registration will take place from 09.00 to 09.45 on Monday 25 August.

Financial Arrangements
Unless otherwise specified in your invitation letter, the workshop grant will cover the cost of your bed and breakfast accommodation, tea/coffee throughout the workshop, lunch on the first day, the wine reception and the Workshop Dinner on Thursday evening.

If we have agreed to pay some of your travel costs, you will be informed in the 'final information' email. Reimbursement will take place after the workshop. At Registration you will be given an expenses claim form and this should be submitted to ICMS, with receipts. Please note that we cannot reimburse any item without a receipt. It would be helpful if you could bring your bank details to the workshop. In addition to the bank account number, participants from the USA and Canada will require their bank’s routing number, those from the UK will be asked for the bank sort code, and those from Europe and the rest of the world should supply their IBAN and SWIFT/BIC code.

Under the terms of our EPSRC funding we are required to charge a 30.00 GBP registration fee to cover costs not admissible under the grant. The fee will be payable on arrival at the workshop payment may be by cash, sterling cheque or credit/debit card. If you anticipate any difficulty covering the fee, please let me know.

 

Programme

Monday 25 August

09.00 - 09.45

Registration and coffee

09.45 - 10.00

Introduction and welcome

10.00 - 11.00

Duco van Straten (Johannes Gutenberg-Universität, Mainz)
Periods and Frobenius polynomials

11.00 - 11.30

Coffee/tea break

11.30 - 12.30

Mihai Tibar (Université de Lille 1)
On the simplicity of surfaces

12.30 - 14.30

Lunch provided in the Exhibition Room

14.30 - 15.30

Sabir Gusein-Zade (Moscow State University)
Filtrations corresponding to ideals and their Poincaré series

15.30 - 16.00

Coffee/tea break

16.00 - 17.00

Wolfgang Ebeling (Leibniz Universität Hannover)
McKay correspondence for the Poincaré series of Kleinian and Fuchsian singularities

17.00 - 19.00 Wine Reception in the Exhibition Room at ICMS

 

Tuesday 26 August

09.00 - 10.00

Maxim Kazarian (Steklov Institute of Mathematics)
Stabilization of Thom polynomials

10.10 - 11.10

Andras Szucs (Eötvös Loránd University)
Multiplicative structure on the cobordism groups of Morin maps

11.10 - 11.40

Coffee/tea break

11.40 - 12.40

David Mond (University of Warwick)
Functions on the Milnor fibrations of linear free divisors

12.40 - 14.30

Lunch

14.30 - 15.30

Bradford Hovinen(University of Toronto)
Matrix factorizations of the classical discriminant

15.30 - 16.00

Coffee/tea break

16.00 - 17.00

Anne Fruehbis-Krueger (Leibniz Universität Hannover)
Computational desingularization and the strict transform

19.00

Informal evening meal at Nargile Turkish Restaurant, 73 Hanover Street

 

Wednesday 27 August

09.00 - 10.00

Grigory Mikhalkin (University of Toronto)
Singularities of effective tropical cycles

10.10 - 11.10

Ilia Itenberg (Université Louis Pasteur, Strasbourg)
Recursive formulas for Welschinger invariants

11.10 - 11.40

Coffee/Tea

11.40 - 12.40

Ragnar-Olaf Buchweitz (University of Toronto Scarborough)
Classifying determinantal presentations of hypersurface singularities

12.40

Lunch break and free afternoon

 

Thursday 28 August

09.00 - 10.00

Terry Wall (University of Liverpool)
Geometry of space curves

10.10 - 11.10

Gert-Martin Greuel (University of Kaisersalautern)
Invariants and classification of singularities in positive characteristic

11.10 - 11.40

Coffee/Tea

11.40 - 12.40

Alexey Gorinov (University of Liverpool)
Mixed Hodge structures on configuration spaces of algebraic varieties and applications to moduli spaces of pointed genus 1 curves

12.40 - 14.30

Lunch break

14.30 - 15.30

Anna Pratoussevitch (University of Liverpool)
Higher spin structures on Riemann surfaces

15.30 - 16.00

Coffee/Tea

16.00 - 17.00

Alejandro Melle Hernández (Universidad Complutense de Madrid)
On a conjecture by A Durfee

19.00

Workshop dinner at First Coast Restaurant, 99-101 Dalry Road, Edinburgh

 

Friday 29 August

09.30 - 10.30

Ilya Tyomkin (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Geometry of Severi varieties on Hirzebruch surfaces

10.30 - 11.00

Coffee/Tea

11.00 - 12.00

Elizabeth Gasparim (University of Edinburgh)
Characteristic classes of sheaves on singular varieties

12.00 - 14.00

Lunch break

14.00 - 15.00

Eugenii Shustin (Tel Aviv University)
On deformations of real plane curve singularities

15.00 - 15.30

Coffee/Tea

15.30 - 16.30

Vladimir Zakalyukin (University of Liverpool)
Non-standard equivalence relations for singularities



Presentations:

Presentation Details
Buchweitz, Ragnar-Olaf
Classifying determinantal presentations of hypersurface singularities
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Ebeling, Wolfgang
McKay correspondence for the Poincaré series of Kleinian and Fuchsian singularities
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Fruehbis-Krueger, Anne
Computational desingularization and the strict transform
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Gasparim, Elizabeth
Characteristic classes of sheaves on singular varieties
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Gorinov, Alexey
Mixed Hodge structures on configuration spaces of algebraic varieties and applications to moduli spaces of pointed genus 1 curves
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Greuel, Gert-Martin
Invariants and classification of singularities in positive characteristic
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Gusein-Zade, Sabir
Filtrations corresponding to ideals and their Poincare series
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Hovinen, Bradford
Matrix factorizations of the classical discriminant
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Itenberg, Ilia
Recursive formulas for Welschinger invariants
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Kazarian, Maxim
Stabilization of Thom polynomials
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Melle Hernández, Alejandro
On a conjecture by A Durfee
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Mikhalkin, Grigory
Singularities of effective tropical cycles
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Mond, David
Functions on the Milnor fibrations of linear free divisors
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Pratoussevitch, Anna
Higher spin structures on Riemann surfaces
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Shustin, Eugenii
On deformations of real plane curve singularities
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Szucs, Andras
Multiplicative structure on the cobordism groups of Morin maps
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Tibar, Mihai
On the simplicity of surfaces
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Tyomkin, Ilya
Geometry of Severi varieties on Hirzebruch surfaces
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van Straten, Duco
Periods and Frobenius polynomials
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Wall, Terry
Geometry of space curves
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Zakalyukin, Vladimir
Non-standard equivalence relations for singularities
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Participants

Name Institution
Alharbi, Fawaz University of Liverpool
Altintas, Ayse University of Warwick
Brasselet, Jean-Paul Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
Buchweitz, Ragnar-Olaf University of Toronto Scarborough
Cadman, Paul University of Warwick
du Plessis, Andrew Aarhus Universitet
Ebeling, Wolfgang Leibniz Universität Hannover
Fruehbis-Krueger, Anne Leibniz Universität Hannover
Gasparim, Elizabeth University of Edinburgh
Gorinov, Alexey University of Liverpool
Goryunov, Victor University of Liverpool
Greuel, Gert-Martin Mathematisches Forschungsinstitut Oberwolfach
Gusein-Zade, Sabir Moscow State University
Haddley, Joel University of Liverpool
Hamm, Helmut Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster
Hovinen, Bradford University of Toronto
Itenberg, Ilia Université Louis Pasteur, Strasbourg
Kazarian, Maxim Steklov Institute of Mathematics
Kloosterman, Remke Leibniz Universität Hannover
Lê, Dũng Tráng International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP)
Luengo, Ignacio Universidad Complutense de Madrid
Melle Hernández, Alejandro Universidad Complutense de Madrid
Mikhalkin, Grigory University of Toronto
Mond, David University of Warwick
Pratoussevitch, Anna University of Liverpool
Shustin, Eugenii Tel Aviv University
Siersma, Dirk Universiteit Utrecht
Stevens, Jan Göteborgs Universitet
Szucs, Andras Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE)
Tibar, Mihai Université de Lille 1
Tommasi, Orsola Leibniz Universität Hannover
Tyomkin, Ilya Massachusetts Institute of Technology
van Straten, Duco Johannes Gutenberg-Universität, Mainz
Wall, Terry University of Liverpool
Zakalyukin, Vladimir University of Liverpool